Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana

The Indian economy is highly dependent on the agricultural sector. A huge population essentially translates into a need to address the growing food demands each year. This dependency is best seen in a year when a below-normal monsoon sends prices of food items ratcheting up.

Over the past years, fears of the El Nino phenomenon have kept farmers and economists worried. A number of farmer deaths have also been recorded across the country. Most of these are linked to crop failure followed by lack of rainfall and inadequate irrigation. Food and retail inflation are natural corollaries to the situation and this hurts the economy. In 2014-15, foodgrain production in the country dropped by about 5.3 per cent.

In an attempt to improve the agricultural productivity, the government of India has come up with a new scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY). According to news reports, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), which is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, finalised the details of the scheme.

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the cabinet has “decided that in 5 years, INR 50,000 crore from the central budget would be utilised for the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana. States’ share will be over and above this”. The money shall be spent entirely towards improving farm yields and productivity, he said. The spending target, under the scheme, for the current financial year is about INR 5300 crore. This is almost twice the corpus set aside for any agricultural irrigation scheme in earlier budgets. Over and above the central government’s allocation, states shall add their funds to the scheme.

If the scheme turns out to be a success, economists and rural managers believe that the crop production could witness a manifold growth.

Details of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana

According to current estimates, out of the 142 million hectares of agricultural land in India, only about 45 per cent has any arrangement for artificial irrigation. The rest of the agricultural farm is dependent solely on rainfall for its water needs. A delay in rainfall or a failure spells disaster for the farmers and shortfall in crop is the subsequent worry faced by the people. The government of India estimates that by spending about INR 5300 crore this fiscal, an additional 6 lakh hectares of agricultural land can be brought under irrigation. Apart from this, 5 lakh hectares of land will also receive the benefits of drip irrigation as a result. Micro-irrigation projects (“Har Khet Ko Pani”) and end-to-end irrigation solutions will be the key focus of this scheme.

The scheme shall also assume responsibility for various irrigation projects that were poorly implemented by previous governments despite adequacy of funds. These projects shall be improved based on strict quality guidelines. About 1,300 watershed projects that have remained in limbo shall now be completed.

According to news reports, the Finance Minister said, “The major objective of the PMKSY is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field level, expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, improve on-farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage of water, enhance adoption of precision-irrigation and other water-saving technologies”.

Apart from the irrigation projects, INR 200 crore from this scheme will be earmarked as Agri-Tech Infrastructure Fund (ATIF) – the corpus required to promote the National Agricultural Market (NAM). This will give farmers easy access to the markets for sale of their produce. The FM also said that the budgetary allocation for this scheme may tie into the material component of the MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act).

Irrigation and Water Conservation

Water conservation and cutting down on wastage is key to bringing irrigation facilities to every farm in the country. This makes introduction of sustainable water preservation practices and optimisation of water resources (More Crop Per Drop) just as important as introduction of new irrigation facilities. The PMKSY shall also explore a number of methods to treat and re-use municipal water for these irrigation projects. Water recycling shall hold much importance in the success of the scheme, said the FM. Private investments in these plans shall also be solicited by the government.

Programme Structure

The planning and implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana has been decentralised and the states shall now draw district-level plans for its successful execution.

The long-term adherence to these District Irrigation Plans (DIP) and State Irrigation Plans (SIP) will be supervised by a National Steering Committee (NSC) with representation from the various ministries involved and shall be monitored by the Union Ministers. The Prime Minister himself shall chair the committee.

The implementation of the scheme shall be overseen by a National Executive Committee (NEC), which shall be chaired by the Vice-Chairman of the NITI Aayog.

PMKSY and Pro-farmer Schemes

The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is part of a group of pro-farmer measures that the NDA government endeavours to implement. Earlier, the Cabinet led by Modi agreed on various amendments to the Land Acquisition Act of 2013, which are likely to benefit those farmers whose lands are acquired by the central government for implementation of various projects. Apart from these, the NDA government has launched a number of social security schemes (pension, insurance schemes etc.) targeted at improving the lot of the poor masses in the country, with specific emphasis on the rural poor. Earlier this year, the government had launched the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana – a scheme to support organic farming endeavours.

My village in Jharkhand state. The villge belong to pleatu land and there is no source of water , farmer depends on only rainfall . There is a nala downside of the village which is surrounded by agriculture khet ..If on that nala a small check dam will made than stored water can used for agriculture and multiple purpuse..so what should do I first to make this check dam through PMKSY or any other ways.

Honourable Priminister Modiji, PMKSY has to be inter linked with MNREGA.For the succesful implementation of PMKSY,MNREGA should be modified in such a way that labour for the Farmers should be available through MNREGA and Farmers contribution of wages should be fixed and added to the Govt wages paid to the workers.Labour should be asked to work for eight hours

Respected sir,
From this add / web sight it is not easy to find out where to apply & from where we can get an application form to apply for micro irrigation scheme
If you can provide a link to this long literature it will become easy to understand people to avail the benefit of the such a useful scheme & need not to extend the date of application
Or The Gran Sean of each village must be trained to feel online forms .
Thanks & waiting for the link alonwith reply to my mail
I am a farmer of village Babatara Tq – Vaijapur Dist- Aurangabad
Mob No 8554914772
Thanks once again

Respected sir,
Now a day’s all farmers have very small land one govt squire his land he become landless farmer.
How such landless farmers can avail benefits of this facility .This must be applicable for all farmers to save & conserve Water.
Also avoid miss use of a very valid natural substance , for drinking water govt is spending enormous amount on tankers & Other water supply scheme to avoid scarcity .
As per me govt must compile to have drip irrigation & must apply all water conserving procedures for better farming .
Flood irrigation must be stopped by providing 95% Free scheemsto farmers.
Thanks
Ashok Patil
8554914772ashokpatil.6@gmail.com

Respected Sir,Iam a farmer in kerala state, trissur (dt),Talappilly (taluk),Chelakkara(panchayath),Pangarappilly(village).sir in our village we want to implement a program of harvesting water.we produce paddy in more than 100 acres.fully depending on rainfall.We use water from a natural canal .if this canal is modified by concreting both banks of the canal and providing shutter facilities we can store water and cultivate paddy in three corps.this water can be use full to two villages.
Damodaranunny.pangarappilly(p.o),Thrissur(dt),Kerala, Pin. 680586

Hon’ble Prime Minister
I am a small farmer age about 60 years, I have applied for Sprinkler Irrigation Scheme under (Pradahn Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yoana) this scheme is implemented in our state i.e., Telangana state under TSMIP I have paid a DD and submitted our Dist Nalgonda-508001.TS. Project Director office on 20.04.2015 still it is pending. The authorities telling when i asked take your DDs it is not processing. Why your Govt.is allotting money for agriculture and collecting money from the farmars not implemented the schemes particularly famars schemes.

I am interested in agriculture but my land was full of up and downs but it’s good agricultural soil how to I use that, if I am going to level that so that is expensive, any advice to use that land for forming

I want to know about Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY). Which Ministry deals with such projects and there is one more project i.e. a reservoir (Tank) being granted to the farmers. What is the name of the that project and which Ministry deals with that project and how much amount or proportion is sanctioned by the govt. side.

Dear PM Sir I am a Graduate in Sc & Arts. So I m Very inte3rersted to start a Skill Development Centre in My Local Area.
I m also an Ex-Serviceman from Indian Army.
I want develop the skills of income in verious people according to their knowledge and ability.

Dear sir/madam
I m interested in PMKSY
I want to start skill development centre in rural area which covering these types of projects that will increase the strength of farmers of india
My mobile no. 8180050225

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